Retirement Age and the Age of Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease: Results from the ICTUS Study

Catherine Grotz, Luc Letenneur, Eric Bonsang, Hélène Amieva, Céline Meillon, Etienne Quertemont, Eric Salmon, Stéphane Adam and Group Ictus/dsa

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: Objectives: To test whether deferred retirement is associated with delayed onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and, if so, to determine whether retirement age still predicts the age at onset of AD when two potential biases are considered. Methods: The study sample was gathered from the Impact of Cholinergic Treatment Use/Data Sharing Alzheimer cohort (ICTUS/DSA), a European study of 1,380 AD patients. Information regarding retirement age, onset of symptoms and covariates was collected at baseline whereas age at diagnosis was gathered from the patient’s medical record prior to study entry. Linear mixed models, adjusted for gender, education, occupation, center, country, household income, depression and cardiovascular risk factors were conducted on 815 patients. Results: (1) The global analyses (n = 815) revealed that later age at retirement was associated with later age at diagnosis (β = 0.31, p

Date: 2015
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